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100020

	registered interest
	date	15/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what progress has been made on improving access to GPs.
	tabling member constituency	Weaver Vale
	tabling member printed	Graham Evans
	uin	905556
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>The Prime Minister’s £50 million Challenge Fund is currently improving general practitioner access for over two million patients across England. This includes offering evening and weekend appointments, as well as better use of technology, such as telehealth, to look after patients. By January, 7.5 million patients will be covered.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>And, we have recently announced another £100 million of funding for next year to improve access for even more patients.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 21/10/2014 15:48:51 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4081 label Biography information for Lord Evans of Rainow

100194

	registered interest
	date	21/10/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the Government's benchmark waiting time is to see a General Practitioner for a routine appointment; and how that benchmark was set.
	tabling member constituency	Mid Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Pauline Latham
	uin	211311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/10/2014 answer text <p>The Government does not set a benchmark for waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) for a routine appointment.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 48 hour waiting time target was removed because it as seen as too inflexible in meeting the needs of patients. The GP patient survey showed that the proportion of people who wanted to get an appointment within 2 days (and were able to) actually fell between 2008-09 and 2009-10 i.e. when the target was in place.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 27/10/2014 16:29:44 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4025 label Biography information for Mrs Pauline Latham

1024713

	registered interest
	date	13/12/2018
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of patients waiting at least three weeks to see a GP.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Mr Jim Cunningham
	uin	202044
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/12/2018 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring everyone across the country has easier and more convenient access to general practice services, including appointments in the evenings and weekends.</p><p> </p><p>The latest National Health Service planning guidance, issued by NHS England in February 2018, brought forward the deadline for clinical commissioning groups to provide extended access to general practice services to 1 October 2018, to ensure additional capacity is in place ahead of winter 2018. This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the general practitioner (GP) workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year, this year HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice, we have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of June 2018, there were</p><p>over 3,300 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice since 2015; consisting of over 500 more nurses and 2,800 more other direct patient care.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 18/12/2018 17:06:19 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	308 label Biography information for Mr Jim Cunningham

1045626

	registered interest
	date	21/01/2019
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for GP appointments.
	tabling member constituency	Strangford
	tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
	uin	210611
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government has committed to ensuring that everyone can see their general practitioner (GP) at a convenient time by increasing the availability of routine appointments in general practice in the evening and at the weekend.</p><p> </p><p>By March 2019, all clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) should provide extended access to general practice for the whole of their registered population (subject to local demand). This includes ensuring that access is available during peak times of demand, including bank holidays and across the Easter, Christmas and New Year periods. ‘Refreshing NHS plans’, published by NHS England in February 2018, included the deliverable for CCGs to provide extended access to GP services for 100% of their population by October 2018. This was to ensure additional capacity was in place ahead of winter 2018.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England and Health Education England (HEE) are working together with the profession to increase the GP workforce. This includes measures to boost recruitment, address the reasons why GPs are leaving the profession, and encourage GPs to return to practice.</p><p> </p><p>The number of doctors entering GP speciality training has been increasing year on year. This year, HEE recruited the highest number of GP trainees ever - 3,473 GP trainees against a target of 3,250, a 10% increase on last year.</p><p> </p><p>Greater skill mix is also key to releasing capacity in general practice. We have committed to investment in the multidisciplinary workforce in general practice. As of September 2018, there were over 3,700 additional clinical staff, excluding GPs, working in general practice compared to 2015; consisting of over 600 more nurses and 3,000 more other direct patient care staff.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/01/2019 17:30:31 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
	tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

166344

	registered interest
	date	26/11/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in (a) each surgery in Corby constituency and (b) each clinical commissioning group area in England were unable to obtain a GP appointment within 48 hours in each month since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Corby
	tabling member printed	Andy Sawford
	uin	216165
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/12/2014 answer text <p>Data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) is not collected.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The 48 hour waiting time target was removed because it was seen as too inflexible in meeting the needs of patients. The GP patient survey showed that the proportion of people who wanted to get an appointment within two days (and were able to) actually fell between 2008-09 and 2009-10 i.e. when the target was in place.</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 03/12/2014 13:35:48 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	4265 label Biography information for Andy Sawford

347795

	registered interest
	date	27/05/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people are waiting a week or more to see or speak to a GP; and what assessment he has made of the effects of access to GPs on attendances at A&E departments.
	tabling member constituency	Hampstead and Kilburn
	tabling member printed	Tulip Siddiq
	uin	900024
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/06/2015 answer text <p>7% of people who wanted to see or speak to a general practitioner (GP) within a week were unable to do so.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Latest GP Patient Survey results suggest that less than 2% of patients who want GP appointments attend walk-in centres or accident and emergency departments.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 02/06/2015 15:21:05 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4518 label Biography information for Tulip Siddiq

381970

	registered interest
	date	17/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average waiting time for a GP appointment is; and what the average waiting time is for referral to secondary care in (a) Edmonton and (b) England.
	tabling member constituency	Edmonton
	tabling member printed	Kate Osamor
	uin	2941
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/06/2015 answer text <p>The data on waiting times to see a general practitioner is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The information for the average waiting time for referral to secondary care in England and Enfield Clinical Commissioning Group (that covers Edmonton) is shown in the following table.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Average (median) waiting times in weeks from referral to treatment<sup>1</sup>, April 2015</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p> </p></td><td><p>Patients who were admitted to</p><p>hospital during the month</p></td><td><p>Patients who were not admitted</p><p>to hospital (e.g. outpatients)</p><p>during the month</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>NHS Enfield Clinical</p><p>Commissioning Group</p></td><td><p>8.3</p></td><td><p>6.6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>England</p></td><td><p>9.0</p></td><td><p>5.5</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><em>Source:</em> Consultant-led referral to treatment waiting times, NHS England</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Note: </em>The NHS Constitution sets out the right for patients to start consultant-led treatment within a maximum of 18 weeks from referral for non-urgent conditions.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 25/06/2015 16:07:47 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	4515 label Biography information for Kate Osamor

385858

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2015
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of people in England and Wales are waiting for a week or more for an appointment with a GP; and what steps he is taking to decrease the length of such waits.
	tabling member constituency	Upper Bann
	tabling member printed	David Simpson
	uin	4330
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2015 answer text <p>The data on waiting times to see a general practitioner (GP) in England is not held centrally. The waiting times to see a GP in Wales is a matter for the Welsh Assembly.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Prime Minister’s Access Fund has so far invested £175 million (including £25 million from the £1 billion Infrastructure Fund) in 57 schemes in England covering over 2,500 practices. This means that a third of the country (over 18 million patients) will have benefitted from improved access and transformational change at local level by March 2016. These schemes include longer opening times, such as evenings and weekends, but also different ways of accessing services, such as online and by telephone.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Bedfordshire answering member printed Alistair Burt question first answered 03/07/2015 11:38:17 answering member 1201 label Biography information for Alistair Burt
	tabling member	1597 label Biography information for David Simpson

61303

	registered interest
	date	11/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the effect of being able to access a GP appointment within 48 hours on levels of patient satisfaction.
	tabling member constituency	Denton and Reddish
	tabling member printed	Andrew Gwynne
	uin	200214
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/06/2014 answer text <p>Overall patient satisfaction is driven by a range of factors, including accessing a general practitioner (GP) appointment at a convenient time, ability to see a preferred GP and the quality of the conversation with the GP.</p><p> </p><p>The Government recognises the importance of timely access to general practice. The PM Challenge Fund has allocated £50 million to pilot ways to improve access around the country, to give GPs the flexibility to meet the needs of the local population.</p><p> </p><p>In addition, the new GP contract introduced a new Enhanced Service, which includes a commitment to same day phone consultations with a professional in the GP surgery, where necessary, for the most at risk in the population.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 16/06/2014 13:27:12 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	1506 label Biography information for Andrew Gwynne

63905

	registered interest
	date	25/06/2014
	answering body	Department of Health
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health
	answering dept sort name	Health
	hansard heading	General Practitioners: Standards
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what meetings he has had with patient groups to discuss the difficulties patients face in booking appointments with their GP.
	tabling member constituency	Hove
	tabling member printed	Mike Weatherley
	uin	202308
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/07/2014 answer text <p>The Department's Ministers regularly meet with Members of Parliament to discuss issues relating to general practice affecting their constituents. They have not had any meetings with patient groups to discuss the difficulties patients face in booking appointments.</p> answering member constituency Central Suffolk and North Ipswich answering member printed Dr Daniel Poulter question first answered 02/07/2014 14:36:24 answering member 3932 label Biography information for Dr Dan Poulter
	tabling member	3984 label Biography information for Mike Weatherley